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Found this book me/me at Diane’s blog and as I love books played along

Instructions:

1) Look at the list and bold those you have read.
2) Underline those you intend to read.
3) Italicise the books you LOVE.
4) Reprint this list so we can try and track down these people who’ve read 6 and force books upon them.

The concept:
a. Type your answer to each of the questions below into Flickr Search.
b. Using only the first page, pick an image.c. Copy and paste each of the URLs for the images into fd’s mosaic maker.

The Questions:
1. What is your first name? Lyndsey-Jane
2. What is your favorite food? halloumi
3. What high school did you go to? Kings Langley
4. What is your favorite color? orange
5. Who is your celebrity crush? taylor hawkins
6. Favorite drink? diet coke
7. Dream vacation? kenya
8. Favorite dessert? creme brulee
9. What you want to be when you grow up? microbiologist
10. What do you love most in life? sunny days
11. One Word to describe you. bubbly
12. Your flickr name.

Each player answers the questions about themselves. At the end of the post, the player then tags 5-6 people and posts their names, then goes to their blogs and leaves them a comment, letting them know they’ve been tagged and asking them to read your blog. Let the person who tagged you know when you’ve posted your answer.

1. What was I doing 10 years ago
Um, I have such a bad memory (that or I just suppress memories so as not to have to think about them). I would have been 22, so I think I was just finishing of my A levels (2nd attempt) in history and politics and thinking about going to uni to study history and/or politics.

2. what 5 things are on my to-do list today (in no particular order)
Well as it is now 10.15pm, I’ll give you the list for tomorrow

Revise Neoplasia for pathology exam

Trial genetics exam

Relaxing pampering bath and hair wash ready for town thursday
That’s about it, but revision is pretty much it until June 6th. There will of course be knitting!

3. Snacks I enjoy
This I will break down into snacks I enjoy but don’t eat as bad for the diet, and snacks I enjoy which are allowed on my diet
Snacks I enjoy but not allowed
Milk Chocolate
Homemade cakes (esp Brownies from recipe from Kat)
Peanut butter on thick sliced white bread (esp when come home drunk)

1. Pick 10 of your favorite movies.
2. Go to IMDb and find a quote from each movie.
3. Post them on your blog for everyone to guess.
4. Strike it out when someone guesses correctly, and put who guessed it and the movie.
5. Looking them up is cheating, please don’t. If you do, a big thug named Guido will pay you a call. Naw, not really, but I’ll be sad that you’re a cheater.

1. I’m not even supposed to be here today!Clerks

2. Timber!

3. Well, two things really. One, you’re still counting how long you’ve been apart in days – and probably hours and minutes – but the big-flashing-red-light way of telling you’re not really over someone is when you’re still reading their horoscope in the hope that they’re going to get wiped out in some freak napalming incident.

4. Excuse me, i think I need to be where people are not.

5. The difference between a lady and a flower girl is not how she behaves, but how she is treated My Fair Lady

6. Sucking all the marrow out of life doesn’t mean choking on the bone.

7. Suddenly I realized – two people isn’t enough. You need backup. If you’re only two people, and someone drops off the edge, then you’re on your own. Two isn’t a large enough number. You need three at least.About A Boy

8. See? I’m as anatomically impaired as a Ken doll.

9. Don’t you just take the past and put it in a room in a basement and lock the door and never go in there? That’s what I do, And then you meet someone special and all you want to do is to toss them the key and say; open up, step inside, but you can’t, because it’s dark, There’s demons and if anybody saw how ugly it is. I keep wanted to do that, fling the door open just let light in and clean everything out.

10. Do you know how popular I am? I am so popular. Everybody loves me so much at this school. The Breakfast Club

so here is my enlightened philosophy of life in 6 (well 7, but ‘is’ is such a small word it hardly counts)

Anything is surmountable with coffee, knitting and friends

My exam and presentation went well this week, so I am looking forward to nice lazy crafty weekend. My Swallowtail is waiting to blocked so hopefully I can do that soon. I have cast on some socks with the Sock Hop yarn – so soft and squishy. I was going to cast on Juliet (again) but don’t have any 6.5mm tips for my options (have ordered them from get knitted) so thought I would use the Rowan Plaid I have in my stash to cast on Alexandra Ballerina Top from Fitted Knits, only to discover I needed 6.5mm for that too. I then thought I could start the Mirepoix Bodice but alas I needed 3.25mm needles for ribbing, and you’ve guessed it I don’t have any of those either. I placed a large needle order with Get Knitted and they should be here nexy week.

I also purchased the Honey Bee Stole, Bee Fields Shawl and Norwegian Woods Shawl patterns from The Knitting Zone. They have a great selection of downloadable patterns for sale. I have started the Norweigian Woods shawl buy the smallest needles I had were 3.5 (3mm were the suggested size) and the laceweight I am using is really thin, so I think I may have to frog. I will wait until the 3.25mm arrive and knit a swatch with those from the other end of the ball and see which I prefer.

In sewing news, I ordered both of the dress patterns and the Velma bag pattern and just managed to get the fabric I wanted. They had sold out in JL in Cambridge but had some in stock in Peterborough so Mum phoned them, paid on her account card and it arrived with her today. They do however have the same fabric in Cambridge in pinks/purples and I really tempted to get some of that for a skirt on Wednesday when I go shopping.

I’ve recently finished knitting a Clapotis with Malabrigo worsted and love every minute of it. So Malabrigo has to be my fave worsted/sweater yarn but as far as sock yarn goes I love the Wollmeise – the colours are just amazing!

Favourite Needles

At the moment I love my brittanty birch dpns, but I have the intechangable and dpn set of Knitpicks Harmonies for Xmas so accept they will be my fave very soon.

Favourite New Pattern

I love the Cobblestone sweater from IK Autumn, which I will be starting in earnest as soon as mt CPH is finished. I also love Spring Things shaw by Susan Lawrence (not exactly new but was released this year I think).

Favourite Project

Really enjoyed the Clapotis and can see more of these being made. I’m also really enjoying the CPH.

I did my first stranded colourowrk this year and really enjoy it. I really want to do some more.

Favourite Knitting Website

Has to be Ravelry – no contest!

Favourite Knitting Book

This is a difficult one as I don’t have many but I do like The Best of Interweave Knits, there are a lot of projects in there that are on my wishlist for next year including Cambridge Jacket (for Karl), Icarus Shawl and Lite Lopi Pullover.

Favourite Knitting Spot
Sitting in bed listening to a good audiobook or knitting podcast.

Favourite Knitting Partner

I tend to knit alone, but I do like to listen to podcasts and my fave is Lime n Violet. So they would be my fave knitting partners.